A chance comment from a family member recently piqued my interest in what New Zealand children are being taught about racism in school. Like the air, you can’t see it but, apparently, racism is everywhere. Racism is everywhere. It is woven into the fabric of society. It lives in
brownstone.org During the Covid debacle, kids were locked out of school or otherwise condemned to an inferior Zoom education for up to two years. What were the alternatives? Unfortunately, since the New Deal, the federal government has severely restricted teenagers’ opportunities for gainful employment. But new evidence proves that
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Massey University issued a draft Tiriti o Waitangi Policy in May 2022 to staff, students and stakeholders which expresses its “commitment to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its associated principles”. It was prepared by the Office of the DVC Maori (Deputy Vice Chancellor Maori) to update
The increasingly alarming statistics around education failure and youth crime is tempered by the work begun by one South Auckland mother concerned about the future of its youth. A life of crime and drugs for many appeared inevitable until Sue Dickens decided she had seen enough failure in their lives
Steven Tucker mercatornet.com Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. One of the most
A May Reid Research poll found 70 per cent of people believed the Labour Government is not doing enough to address falling literacy and numeracy rates. Could it be they are too distracted with “smuggling left-wing nonsense into our schools”, as ACT’s Chris Baillie has opined? A hilarious moment
alwynpoole.substack.com This week most secondary schools have rostered home year-nine and year-10 students. The teacher unions try and tell NZ that they are doing this for the good of the children. This is despite the huge decline in attendance and academic performance. It is also alongside a worldwide
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com alwyn.poole@gmail.com This week most secondary schools have rostered home Year 9 & Year 10 students. The teacher unions try and tell New Zealand that they are doing this for the good of the children. This is despite the huge decline in attendance
Exciting to see the new programs just announced to boost boys’ performance in education. Boys can do anything! I jest, of course. The thoroughly feminised education industry will die before they countenance anything that will benefit boys rather than girls. No matter how far behind girls boys are falling. Boys
Boaz Dvir Assistant Professor of Journalism Penn State The Florida Department of Education announced on April 10, 2023, that it had rejected 35% of the social studies books publishers submitted for approval and use in the state’s public schools. The move was based on a determination the books contain
Malcolm Roberts mercatornet.com Malcolm Roberts is a One Nation Senator for Queensland. The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a “framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists” titled, “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”. Its purpose is to standardise (in other words override) the diverse teaching practices
Whoever heard of drag queens in school libraries five years ago? Suddenly, they’re everywhere. There’s a reason for that. In 2019, Queer Theory academic and drag queen Harris Kornstein published a paper advocating “a drag pedagogy”. Kornstein explicitly stated that the purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour, which
When I returned to university to study journalism, it was quite an eye-opening process. I’m not just talking about the blatant left-wing bias of so many of the lecturers, who would spend entire lectures spouting conspiracies about Evil Rupert Murdoch and promoting “journalism through a Marxist lens”. No, what
mises.org In history classes (in public or private schools, colleges, and others), state propaganda and mainstream history, a historical fiction has been spun that allegedly debunks any notion of noninterventionism. This is the myth of American isolationism. The assertion usually goes that America was extremely isolationist prior to World
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com alwyn.poole@gmail.com Education is in genuine crisis in New Zealand and the statistics are now widely known. Jan Tinetti, the latest Minister of Education, is currently flapping around trying to say that she did not manipulate attendance data releases to coincide with a
So, Jan Tinetti, the latest iteration of a Minister of Education, turned up for an interview with Ryan Bridge. The education system is said to be in “a crisis of achievement and a crisis of attendance”. The current structure is not delivering the results we need as parents, as employers,
